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Deadlock Clock: Apr 4th 2017 at 11:59:00 PM
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#1: Mar 25th 2017 at 6:47:57 AM

Yeah, so the current really doesn't do anything to illustrate the supposed "mysteriousness" of Antarctica—only the caption sort-of indicates something spooky going on.

A major difficulty I'm seeing while looking for replacement options is how to show the "Mysterious" and "Antarctica" elements in the same image. At the Mountains of Madness would be an obvious choice, but many pics look like it could conceivably be in a number of different places to someone not familiar with the story. Perhaps, say, Siberia? I do find this penguin pic funny, though.

Things like alien visitors or secret Nazi bases have similar issues. Yes, it's mysterious, but would you automatically assume it to be Antarctica?

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#2: Mar 25th 2017 at 7:12:15 AM

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#3: Mar 25th 2017 at 8:50:26 PM

I think that as long as the people on skis in the second pic are visible at wiki size, then that one is my favorite.

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#4: Apr 1st 2017 at 7:00:47 AM

Clock is set. Here's my two favorites at wiki size.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_14957770_sx540.png https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_at_the_mountains_of_madness.png

edited 1st Apr '17 7:01:59 AM by Willbyr

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#5: Apr 1st 2017 at 7:37:59 AM

[up]I like 4.2

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#8: Apr 1st 2017 at 11:43:19 AM

[tup]4.2

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#11: Apr 3rd 2017 at 4:52:06 PM

You can't tell that you're in the antarctic in 4.1. They could be in orbit after having just stolen a bunch of penguins for some reason.

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#12: Apr 3rd 2017 at 5:58:07 PM

[up] Given the page title, I think that's a bit of a stretch.

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#13: Apr 4th 2017 at 12:14:48 AM

Either works. I'm not going to be picky here.

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#15: Apr 7th 2017 at 6:46:21 PM

The clock's up and there's more consensus for 4.2, so it's up and tagged. Locking up.

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